February 14/15: A speed-skating world championship is held for the first time in a covered ice hall, it's held in
Heerenveen in the brand new
Thialf-stadium.
Leo Visser sets a new world record on the 5 kilometer.
February 22: Valérie Albada Jelgersma is freed after she was kidnapped. Her father is Eric Albada Jelgersma owner of Unigro.
March 2: The province of
Drenthe is struck by an extreme amount of glazed frost. Objects were covered are covered by a 1 centimeter thick layer of ice. Trees and high voltage pylons snap. This event is known as the IJzelramp of 1987.
June 8: In a short amount of time several child abuse scandals are uncovered. The worst case is in
Oude Pekela were approximately 70 children are abused by several adults. The perpetrators were never found.
June 27: Egbert Streuer and Bernard Schnieders are victorious in the sidecar class of the
Dutch TT.
September 5: The homo-monument in
Amsterdam is revealed, in memory of prosecuted gay men during the Nazi era.
September 7: Klaas de Jonge gets to leave South Africa after being in hiding for two years at the Dutch embassy in
Pretoria. De Jonge is suspected of supporting forbidden black resistance movement
ANC.
September 9: Ferdi E. abducts
Ahold top executive
Gerrit Jan Heijn on his own and murders him the same day. The abduction keeps the country in suspense for many months until Ferdi E. is arrested in April 1988.
September 22: Shipyard P. Smit Jr. in
Rotterdam is declared bankrupt.
October: Pediatrician Guus de Jonge publishes groundbreaking article about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. He advises to put infants in the supine position.
October 28: A bomb incident occurs during the EC qualification match between
the Netherlands and
Cyprus. Despite heavy protest of the Greek FA the score isn't converted to regulatory 0–3 defeat for the Dutch. According to the
UEFA the match will be redone. The Dutch qualify because of this for the
UEFA Euro 1988 in
West Germany.
Sport
Hosted of international sport events by the Netherlands
February 14/15: A speed-skating world championship is held for the first time in a covered ice hall, it's held in
Heerenveen in the brand new
Thialf-stadium.
Leo Visser sets a new world record on the 5 kilometer.
February 22: Valérie Albada Jelgersma is freed after she was kidnapped. Her father is Eric Albada Jelgersma owner of Unigro.
March 2: The province of
Drenthe is struck by an extreme amount of glazed frost. Objects were covered are covered by a 1 centimeter thick layer of ice. Trees and high voltage pylons snap. This event is known as the IJzelramp of 1987.
June 8: In a short amount of time several child abuse scandals are uncovered. The worst case is in
Oude Pekela were approximately 70 children are abused by several adults. The perpetrators were never found.
June 27: Egbert Streuer and Bernard Schnieders are victorious in the sidecar class of the
Dutch TT.
September 5: The homo-monument in
Amsterdam is revealed, in memory of prosecuted gay men during the Nazi era.
September 7: Klaas de Jonge gets to leave South Africa after being in hiding for two years at the Dutch embassy in
Pretoria. De Jonge is suspected of supporting forbidden black resistance movement
ANC.
September 9: Ferdi E. abducts
Ahold top executive
Gerrit Jan Heijn on his own and murders him the same day. The abduction keeps the country in suspense for many months until Ferdi E. is arrested in April 1988.
September 22: Shipyard P. Smit Jr. in
Rotterdam is declared bankrupt.
October: Pediatrician Guus de Jonge publishes groundbreaking article about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. He advises to put infants in the supine position.
October 28: A bomb incident occurs during the EC qualification match between
the Netherlands and
Cyprus. Despite heavy protest of the Greek FA the score isn't converted to regulatory 0–3 defeat for the Dutch. According to the
UEFA the match will be redone. The Dutch qualify because of this for the
UEFA Euro 1988 in
West Germany.
Sport
Hosted of international sport events by the Netherlands